Every year around Easter time we partake in the holiday tradition of dyeing eggs. First I start off hard boiling the eggs, thus making the kitchen have the very appeasing egg smell. Then we start the process. Well there are lots of problems. 1 - How may eggs do you really want? So the process of dying and decorating the eggs is lots of fun, but then you need to do something with all the eggs. 2 - When you eat the eggs they always have that lingering taste of vinegar from the dying of them. 3 - I don't know about you, but I like my eggs to be fresh and Easter weekend is normally very busy and this is just one more thing to add to the packed weekend. 4 - You do all that work to put them in the fridge. 5- If you have a larger family, with a dozen eggs each will only get to dye a few. (what fun is that?)

So this year while walking through Walmart, I found these:

Well for 1.97 why not give it a try? So I purchased 4 dozen and a few different types of dyes. The top one was spin an egg. In this you put the egg in and drop a few drops of dye, then push the plunger to make them spin.The second was candy apples Easter eggs. In this one instead of dipping, you paint each egg individually.The 3rds was the traditional egg dipping kit. I chose the neon kit since the eggs warn you that they will be pastel once dyed. I decided that if it was supposed to have more color to start with maybe it would have a better result.

Lets start with the traditional coloring. The PAAS Neon. I followed the directions on the egg carton that said to use vinegar instead of water.

One of my concerns was that the eggs were hollow and that they were going to float. I was right. They float! Normally you only need to leave them in a few minutes. To achieve a deeper color the I would keep turning the eggs and they spent almost an hour in the coloring.

The second kit was Candy Apple Easter eggs. You paint each egg one at a time with a small paint brush. If you have multiple kids you will need multiple kits. This is not really shareable. This did give the most color to the eggs, but it was also very messy, the dye gets on your hands. Also you need to paint most of the egg and let it sit on the tray provided to dry before you finish painting. The tray only can hold 2 eggs at a time and it takes about 5 minutes to dry. I would only suggest this kit for older kids. It also is not a consistent coloring

The last kit I think created the eggs that I liked the best! Also if you have multiple kids I would suggest more than one spinner so that they both can be spinning the eggs. The color is in little packages and little hand may need help. It would be better if the colors were in drop bottles instead of packages that are like soy sauce.

Below are all the eggs that we did. Bottom are the paas traditional eggs. The middle are the spin art and the top was the candy apple eggs.

We were able to do these around mid march and my daughter has been playing with them for almost a month now. We keep them in a big bowl on the dinning room table and in decorating around the house. After the year is over I plan on putting the year on the eggs then as we move forward in the years we will have a large collection of eggs! I plan on getting more of these eggs and doing it again next year. I highly suggest it as long as you are not looking for perfect colored eggs.